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already called for an independent investigation. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
It was the election Theresa May called to increase her majority - | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
to strengthen her hand in the Brexit negotiations - but it | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
Here in the Midlands, there was plenty of drama, | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
The results leave the Conservatives with 39 seats in our region - | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
that's a net gain of just one on 2015 - they'd been | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
Labour made a net loss of one, meaning they now have 24 seats | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
Later in the programme, we'll have more on the picture | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
in Stoke-on-Trent, Wolverhampton and Telford. | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
First though, our Special Correspondent Peter Wilson brings us | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
details on some of last night's other key contests. | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
Even Labour big guns could hardly believe the | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
Predictions of a Labour meltdown proved wrong. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
Deputy leader Tom Watson had warned that | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
Theresa May could win a Thatcher style landslide. | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
After holding West Bromwich East, he mocked her as weak and wobbly. | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
Theresa May's authority has been undermined by this election. | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
She is a damaged Prime Minister whose reputation may never recover. | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
People in this country were crying out for | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
something more than what the Tories have given us for the last | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
Labour's vote across the city bigger than in Tony Blair's 1997 landslide. | :01:40. | :01:50. | |
Jack Dromey easily saw off the Tory challenge. | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
Erdington had been a key Conservative target. | :01:55. | :01:55. | |
I always thought that we could win, because I | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
have great confidence in the judgment of the people of Erdington. | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
They've seen through Theresa May, and they've seen through Erdington | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
Wolverhampton stayed with Labour, while back in | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
Birmingham, Edgbaston chose Preet Gill to become | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
It's a real honour, it's a real privilege | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
to be representing the | :02:13. | :02:13. | |
people in the place where I was born and raised and lived, and my family | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
The Conservatives had targeted West Midlands cities, but all three | :02:18. | :02:31. | |
Their MPs increased their majorities. | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
It's decades since the Tories won here. | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
We have seen election after election. | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
The UK, Brexit, Trump, you know, where we've had results people | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
So whether it's the country's polling, what people | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
are saying, we had shy Tories last time, maybe we had shy Corbyn | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
One shock, Labour's Matt Weston overturned a big Conservative | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
majority, winning Warwick and Leamington. | :02:56. | :03:08. | |
I always thought that Warwick and Leamington is a special place. | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
A bright campaign by local councillor | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
Eddie Hughes saw him seize Walsall North | :03:17. | :03:17. | |
Eddie Hughes saw him seize Walsall North from Labour's | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
And as the son of an Irish immigrant bus driver, I think on the | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
doorstep, people felt I was a type of person they could go for a beer | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
But it was a barren night for the Liberal Democrats. | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
Martin Horwood failed to unseat the Conservatives in Cheltenham. | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
24,000 would normally be enough to win a seat. | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
And it was a lot more than we got last time, but it wasn't quite | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
enough to overtake the Conservatives here this time. | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
Theresa May gambled all on a snap election. | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
No certainty, no stability now for her. | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
Few Labour MPs expected to whole their seats, | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
And our political editor Patrick Burns is here with us now. | :03:54. | :04:09. | |
So much for the idea the Conservatives were going to make | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
How have Labour held onto all but one of their seats | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
in Coventry, Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Stoke? | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
the Conservatives certainly tried to shift the front line right into | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
those biggest cities. I was in the Birmingham Edgbaston, where the | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
Conservatives needed a swing of just 3.5%. It was actually Labour who | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
confounded predictions by doing best out of the previous UK poet, and to | :04:38. | :04:46. | |
a lesser extent the decline of the Liberal Democrats -- the previous | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
Ukip vote. The stand-out surprise - Labour | :04:49. | :04:49. | |
regaining Warwick and Leamington. It was one of only two places in our | :04:50. | :05:01. | |
county which voted to remain in the European Union. I picked up towards | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
the end of this campaign a sense that Labour, surprisingly actually, | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
while gaining support in places that were used to think of as Middle | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
England. Warwick, yes, and they halved the Tory majority in | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
Worcester as well. I wonder if it's something to do with the fact that | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
these are places which have significant educational | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
establishments. You know, progressive academics. Our own local | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
version of the metropolitan intelligentsia, the Islington set, | :05:30. | :05:30. | |
but in middle England. The key thing is that the | :05:31. | :05:42. | |
Conservatives did actually do a little bit better in our part of the | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
country than they did across England as a whole. Especially in those big | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
Leave voting areas. They won their seats in Walsall North and | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
Stoke-on-Trent South. Ukip by contrast, I think they are facing | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
something of an existential crisis in this part of the country now. The | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
Liberal Democrats, all right, they came within 2500 of the | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
Conservatives in Cheltenham, but in their two other former | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
constituencies, sorry Helen Yardley, they trailed in a very poor third | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
place in both places. Maybe they need to go back to that old style of | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
pavement politics. All interesting stuff. Thank you very much. | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
As Patrick's just mentioned, the Conservatives didn't really make | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
the breakthroughs in Labour's heartlands they'd hoped for. | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
They did make one significant gain though, in Stoke-on-Trent. | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
It's the first time the Tories have had an MP | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
Lindsay Doyle was there to see history in the making. | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
And I do hereby declare that Jack Brereton is duly elected. | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
It was a night which made history in Stoke-on-Trent. | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
The first Conservative MP to be elected in | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
This area voted overwhelmingly to leave the European | :06:52. | :07:00. | |
Union, and this is why a lot of people voted for me, because my | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
commitment to ensure that we make a success | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
For Labour, perhaps not totally unexpected. | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
The Tories had been targeting this seat, convinced | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
I will forever treasure the time I had as | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
And Jack, I shall be looking over your | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
shoulder making sure that you are indeed carry on fighting | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
A dignified speech from the outgoing MP as he lost the | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
seat he held for 12 years by just under 700 votes. | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
He left the count abruptly, his aides preventing us | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
Smiles from Labour in Stoke North and Stoke Central. | :07:37. | :07:46. | |
Gareth Snell, MP for just four months since winning the by-election | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
on the resignation of Tristram Hunt, held onto Central with a | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
More people voted that in the last two elections, so I think | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
that's a good endorsement of me as a candidate and as an MP. | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
For Stoke North, it was a 21,000 majority for | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
Labour's Ruth Smeeth, a victory which came after her very | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
Last year saw her resign as Parliamentary | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
Private Secretary to the shadow Northern Ireland and Scotland teams, | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
It's been a very difficult 12 months for the Labour Party, and I got | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
caught in the middle of that last summer. | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
But we are where we are, and I'm still standing. | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
And I got re-elected this evening, so I'm | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
As a new day dawned in Stoke-on-Trent, | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
it's no longer a city which Labour can claim to have a monopoly on. | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
Lindsay, this was a big win for the Conservatives - | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
probably their best of the night in the Midlands. | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
Just give us an idea of its significance. | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
Quite simply, it is as you said in your introduction, historic. Not for | :08:50. | :08:59. | |
the past nearly over 80 years has Stoke had a Conservative MP. The | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
other two seats in Stoke, they were Labour holds, and I'm joined now by | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
the Labour MP for Stoke North. Great result for you, but very | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
disappointing for Rob. He has been a fantastic constituency MP, a great | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
advocate for the potteries since 2005. I'm really sad to be using him | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
as a colleague, but let's be clear, this will be a temporary blip in | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
Labour's history in the city. We will do everything we can to make | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
sure that people in the south of the city no Labour is still with them | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
and will be fighting back. You have been critical in the past of Jeremy | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
Corbyn, but the have been significantly against Ashley. Ayew | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
revising European Union? Our site was extraordinary for the Labour | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
Party. -- are you revisiting your opinion, last night was | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
extraordinary. What was clear last night was they didn't trust the | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
Prime Minister to deliver. This was an unnecessary election. We didn't | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
need it, and she has been incredibly responsible for even calling it. In | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
11 days, we start negotiating Brexit and we have an unstable government. | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
You just have to look at the back of this morning, see the impact of her | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
actions. -- look at the markets. She has not proved to be strong and | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
stable, so I am appalled she has not yet resigned. Briefly, big Brexit | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
wrote here. What will you do to represent Brexit voters? I've been | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
clear all the way through. This is how we make Brexit matter for the | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
people in the potteries. My constituents were clear on what they | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
thought, I have to deliver for them. Thank you for joining us. Back to | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
you in Birmingham. There was high drama | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
in Newcastle-under-Lyme last night. There were two recounts, | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
the contest was settled by a handful of votes, | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
with a Labour hold. Earlier in the day, students | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
at Keele University posted angry messages on social media - | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
claiming they had been wrongly Two recounts, and in the end it | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
boiled down to just 30 votes. At just after six o'clock this | :10:57. | :11:05. | |
morning - it was declared that Labour's Paul Farrelly had held | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
on to his Newcastle seat. Narrowly beating the Conservative | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
candidate Owen Meredith. I thought we were so marginal, | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
the most marginal in the West Midlands that's the way | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
the national polls were looking it would be really | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
difficult to hang on. But Teresa May's plan has backfired, | :11:25. | :11:26. | |
she wanted a landslide but the country didn't | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
want to give her a blank cheque - and that included the | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
people of Newcastle. Voting in the constituency hasn't | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
been without controversy today. Many students at Keele University | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
posted on social media It's thought at least | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
100 of them were unable Some people also claiming they'd | :11:43. | :11:55. | |
not had postal votes. The Borough Council says that just | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
isn't the case and says it also wrote to those | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
who didn't register properly. I've had a day here like never | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
before. It's an absolute shambles and I'll | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
be calling for an inquiry. Nobody should be denied a vote | :12:15. | :12:25. | |
because of council incompetence. We need to get this right, and make | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
sure we learn lessons from extensive at the public when they go to boat | :12:29. | :12:38. | |
have confidence in the process. The Electoral Commission says it is | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
looking into it. I want to thank everyone in my office, without whom | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
I couldn't have served Newcastle for the last 16 years. | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
It's now a fifth general election win for Paul Farrelly. | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
A constituency represented by labour for nearly 100 years. | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
Now, the Newcastle Labour MP says he needs to work hard to win more | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
We're joined now by two of the victors from last night - | :13:03. | :13:11. | |
straight from the election front line. | :13:12. | :13:12. | |
Richard Burden, won in Birmingham Northfield for Labour - | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
a seat the Conservatives thought they could win. | :13:16. | :13:16. | |
Also here, is Eddie Hughes, the new Conservative | :13:17. | :13:18. | |
He beat the Labour veteran David Winnick, who'd held | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
Congratulations to you both. Eddie to you first. You said you'd always | :13:24. | :13:36. | |
wanted to be an MP, always wanted to be in this position. I suspect you | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
didn't imagine you would be in this situation, though. What do you make | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
of the situation, and should Theresa May go? Well, what I make of the | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
situation? Fascinating result last night in Walsall North and obviously | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
I'm delighted, we fought very hard. Should Theresa May go? Absolutely | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
not. We are starting negotiations in 11 days, and we need continuity. Her | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
position is so weakened, how can she be taken seriously in Brussels? It | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
still feels the Conservatives are in a strong position, the largest party | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
in parliament. 500,000 votes more nationally than the Labour Party, so | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
she's in a very strong position. Really? A strong position? No | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
overall majority, a hung parliament, how can you say it's a strong | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
position? Something went badly wrong. Strength is relative. | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
Compared to anyone else in parliament, she's in the strongest | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
position to lead the country. A hung parliament is not saying an awful | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
lot! Richard, turning to you. You have been very critical of Jeremy | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
Corbyn's leadership in the past. Do you owe him an apology? I think | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
Jeremy Corbyn has really developed in the course of this campaign. What | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
an interesting is that people have seen him rather than just hearing | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
what other people say about him, I think he's come over as self assured | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
and has certainly managed to connect with younger voters in a way that I | :15:00. | :15:07. | |
think an awful lot of us politicians can learn from. What are people been | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
sent you on the doorstep? Have they been talking about him, the | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
leadership? Was this about people, politics or politics? It was about | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
all of those things. People reacted against what was effectively an | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
arrogance by Theresa May. Arrogance in calling the election when it was | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
unnecessary, another three years left in the parliament to run. And | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
arrogance in taking people for granted, of kind of demanding that | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
she be given a blank cheque, that she be given an increased majority | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
to continue to do what she wants. I think people just don't like being | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
taken for granted in that way. We saw the results in that in the | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
ballot boxes in Birmingham and elsewhere. OK, it'll be fascinating | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
to see what happens in future. I hope you both managed to get some | :15:52. | :15:53. | |
sleep eventually. Many thanks. We asked Britain's first female Sikh | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
MP, Preet Gill to join us - but the new Labour MP for Edgbaston | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
is on the school run. To another city - | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
and another set-back. The Conservatives had been hoping | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
to win in Wolverhampton South West. But on the night, | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
they failed to take it as Labour held on to the seat | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
they regained in 2015. Ben Godfrey has the details | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
of what proved, once again, She's the NHS nurse who's given | :16:21. | :16:22. | |
the Tories a bitter pill to swallow. Eleanor Patricia Smith, | :16:23. | :16:32. | |
Labour Party, 20,899. Like a yo-yo, Wolverhampton | :16:33. | :16:42. | |
South West tos and fros - in 2015, Labour took it | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
by a mere 800 votes. So the smart money was | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
on the Tories taking it back. A spectacular 2000 majority | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
in a seat many say they People were tired, as I said | :16:55. | :17:02. | |
in my speech, of the I'm a nurse, and I feel that | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
that's what's said it. What's been happening | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
to our NHS at the moment has been disgraceful, | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
the lack of funding and everything | :17:18. | :17:18. | |
else that went with it. And just people just | :17:19. | :17:20. | |
got tired of it. Almost three quarters | :17:21. | :17:22. | |
of the electorate voted - and for the second time in two | :17:23. | :17:24. | |
years, the Conservative candidate and former MP Paul Uppal was left | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
wondering what went wrong. It was always going | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
to be a tough fight. But we did a good battle, | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
and we were very close. There is no doubt there | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
is uncertainty, and from everything we've had post Brexit, | :17:43. | :17:44. | |
I think what the country needs more than anything else, | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
and particularly young people, is going to need | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
a period of certainty. And I'm not sure we've | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
got that at the moment. And I do hereby declare | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
that Pat McFadden is Both Pat McFadden and Emma | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
Reynolds's majorities were dented in Wolverhampton South East | :17:57. | :18:05. | |
and North East respectively - The Conservatives couldn't say | :18:06. | :18:07. | |
the same, as Eleanor Smith denied Ben Godfrey, BBC Midlands | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
Today, Wolverhampton. So it was an election result | :18:14. | :18:24. | |
the opinion polls suggested The landslide hoped for by | :18:25. | :18:26. | |
Theresa May failed to materialise - after a strong showing | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
by Jeremy Corbyn's party. Nicola Beckford is in the centre | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
of Birmingham for us. Nicola, what's been | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
the reaction from people There's been a huge sense of | :18:40. | :18:49. | |
surprise and shock amongst people making their way to work. They have | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
woken up to find that we have a hung parliament. Here is what some people | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
had to say to me earlier on. I think Theresa May got a surprise | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
with how close the election came. I think she called | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
it because she was expecting a landslide, | :19:05. | :19:06. | |
and she didn't get it. I was expecting a bit more margin, | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
but that's what we get, so I thought it would have been more | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
towards the Conservatives Yeah, I'd rather it not | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
been a hung parliament. Interestingly, this region is seen | :19:19. | :19:30. | |
as a barometer for the rest of the country. Now, the Conservatives were | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
expecting to win at least six seats here. Clearly, that failed to | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
happen. Thank you for that. Never mind Brexit, the future | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
of hospital services was top of the election agenda | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
in Telford in Shropshire. Labour were hoping to win back | :19:45. | :19:45. | |
the seat which they lost to the Conservatives two years ago, | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
after a bitter row about downgrading And I do hereby declare that | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
Lucy Allan is duly elected. Lucy Allan held her seat | :19:52. | :20:02. | |
for the Conservatives in Telford with a slim | :20:03. | :20:04. | |
majority of just 720. Down a little more from | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
the narrow 730 two years ago. We've seen a very difficult national | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
picture, so against that background, I had hoped for a slightly | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
improved majority on last time, and we felt | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
very much that we were on course for that, | :20:25. | :20:37. | |
but quite clearly, something The former Wandsworth | :20:38. | :20:39. | |
Council are now in just her second term in Telford, | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
and had this to say about the Prime Minister's decision | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
to call the election. She called that election | :20:47. | :20:47. | |
against polls that indicated that she was going to have an increased | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
majority, and I think in those circumstances, that was | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
the right thing to do. However, we have seen | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
that something has gone fundamentally wrong | :20:55. | :20:56. | |
with the campaign. The Labour candidate had | :20:57. | :20:57. | |
fought his campaign against possible downgrading of services at | :20:58. | :20:59. | |
Telford's Princess Royal Hospital. The people have spoken, | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
and I still feel that our hospital services | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
need to be protected. Meanwhile, Conservative Mark | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
Prichard held his seat. Well, I'm delighted and honoured | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
and thrilled to have been re-elected You know, I just want | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
to serve the people locally in the best way I can | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
in the new House of Commons, whatever the complexion | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
of the House of Commons. So, no change in Telford or | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
the Wrekin on election night, which proved difficult elsewhere | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
for the Conservatives. Let's finish up with | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
analysis from Dr Matt Cole, This region voted strongly | :21:41. | :21:42. | |
in favour to leave the EU, but how much did Brexit come | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
into play in this election? Obviously Theresa May wanted it to | :21:48. | :22:00. | |
be an election about Brexit, and in part it was. If you looked at the | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
seats that changed hands, then clearly those people who voted for | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
Ukip before in large numbers turned over to Conservative candidates and | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
it helped them to win. In a combat is way, in Warwick and Leamington, | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
people who voted Remain return to Labour to reassert that opinion. It | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
wasn't just about Brexit. Halfway through the campaign, we got this | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
surge of interest and concern about domestic social policy, about the | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
treatment of the elderly and about education. And that became the | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
agenda of the campaign. We are seeing the last results coming | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
through, Labour holding in many cases. At the beginning of this | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
campaign, Jeremy Corbyn was seen as being toxic. Clearly, that wasn't | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
the case. That's right. To some extent, you might call this the | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
Miliband syndrome. He was so badly off in the polls that the only way | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
was up. The more people saw of him, the less likely they were to have | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
the terrible perceptions they have through the media earlier. As well | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
as that, he has campaigned very effectively, even in the perception | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
of his critics within his own party. His rallies with young people, he | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
may well have mobilised young people in a way that helped Labour in some | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
of those marginal seats. What does this mean overall for the political | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
picture in the West Midlands? Not many seats have changed hands, as we | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
seen. But there has been a big sea change under the surface. For a | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
start, it's a 2-party system again. The Liberal Democrats and the Greens | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
and Ukip have not managed to make any impact, and in most cases have | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
fallen back in the rankings. As well as that, the Conservatives have | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
failed to capitalise in the way that they did in the mayoral election. | :23:47. | :23:56. | |
The Conservatives have questions to ask themselves, and the other | :23:57. | :23:58. | |
parties are looking for a role. Thank you. | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
That's all from this special election edition of Midlands Today. | :24:02. | :24:03. | |
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negotiations, I think duty calls and she will stay. Viewers are joining | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
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